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25 protesters arrested in Portland, for “taking over” a park in The Pearl– our very own miniature “posh urban” neighborhood. Like the West Hills, but without any hills. At the peak of the demo, there were apparently about 150 people. They chanted a lot but otherwise seemed pretty relaxed. Some were wearing Halloween costumes.

I watched some of the footage. The Mayor showed up but seemed, as ever, disengaged. The man really doesn’t give a fuck about people’s pain. I don’t know how much clearer he can make it beyond putting it on a damn T-Shirt at this point. (Of course, it would be a sustainable hemp T-Shirt with Soy-Based inks, because this is fucking Portland.)

Christian groups that have publicly sided with the protesters include one of the oldest Christian charities, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the oldest national student organisation, the Student Christian Movement, Christianity Uncut, the Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and the Christian magazine Third Way. In addition, London Catholic Worker, the Society of Sacramental Socialists and Quaker groups have offered their support.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host an intimate dinner at Gracie Mansion on Sunday night that brings together a bipartisan group of senators, Xerox chief executive Ursula Burns and other business and labor leaders to discuss how to pave the way for the Super Committee to “go big” and cut $4 trillion in federal spending, according to a source familiar with the dinner.

The Washington contingent includes Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Warner and Republican Sens. Bob Corker, and Saxby Chambliss, among others. The meeting will be a much smaller, more strategic affair — 10 to 20 people — than a similar dinner Warner threw at his home in September, which had a guest list of 60.

I am really surprised at Kamala Harris out here, staying out of it. The reporting, such as it is, is that she is getting the cold shoulder fom the Obammy crowd. She and her husband (at DOJ in DC) are (were?) close wtih Slobby.

Yeah it was never going to be much. Everything now is headlines. And nothing else.

oh I sense a reformation, an awakening (snicker!): MoveOn.org is running TV ads against Quan. I don’t defend her, she is in full-on, no-holds-barred messy collapse, but Est Dems are moving in. They must be thrilled. Two birds one stone, Quan, who I would still maintain is not a standard issue thief.. AND ranked choice voting.

LOL I saw that and figured, Okay, when do they clip him in the back of the head? I had such hopes for Herman. LOL..

I also saw that Ron Paul (NOT an Endorsement! LOL) has gotten enough traction among 2 Iowa straw poll hoohahs *** involving Iowa voters only*** – that he actually made CNN tonight .. LOL.
Apperently in Des Moines he carried 84% of 500 people who turned out… enough to hear talk on the CNN broadcast that there may be a whupset underway LOL.

So place yer bets, people: How long before reports roll in on the crazy old Dr. in the barn doin the unspeakable with corncobs upon livestock? 😆 Which is so wrong because, 4 out of 5 livestock polled so far (as it were) ALSO want to END THE FED. LOL Who Doesn’t? 😆

Oh I’d LURVE to see the guy disrupt the narrative…
Which will be allowed long enough till video is released of him in bed with a purported campaign operative dairy cow , the two of em sharing a nice post-coital doobie. LOL.

I laughed pretty damned hard a few years ago (2004) when he fluffed and huffed and tried to stuff himself into pretzel or vice pretzel… AND hs record of barely voting came out, and almost never in a primary… AND that his first convention was 2000. A significant trial lawyer in a shitty pond called NC (and i even like the state but let’s get real) and no history of contact iwth the Dem party. Snicker.

Apparenlty he has spent the time since D I V O R C E and her death (finally! No more books!) warming barstools in his little burg.

I am REALLY sorry that his ”chop shop” as I call it, his packages of experts his firm hired out to cases on issues he had won on never was examined.

😆 Speaking of North Carolina and LOSERS,
hard to tell JUST WHO is gonna be shooting at the Dem Convention by August…I mean who’s the genius that picked Charlotte for next summer and , hell, ..Why?

Fuck , at this point, I think all we’ll need to do by then is set up Popcorn tents and watch as Obby calls in the Vanguard Pwog Bloggers to try and hold off the turned-savage Bank of America Headquarters types and ex-mil Battalions vying for first dibs at storming the Hall…. 😆

French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under fire from opposition leaders for seeking China’s help to resolve the euro area’s debt crisis.

“It’s shocking,” Martine Aubry, the general secretary of the Socialist Party, said in the Sunday newspaper, Journal du Dimanche. The Europeans, by turning to the Chinese, are showing their weakness. How will Europe be able to ask China to stop undervaluing its currency or to accept reciprocal commercial accords?”

Sarkozy reached out last week to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to build support for an enlarged rescue fund designed to solve the region’s sovereign-debt crisis. The leaders talked just hours after a euro-region summit on Oct. 27 ended with an agreement to boost the European Financial Stability Facility to about 1 trillion euros ($1.4 trillion), leveraging existing guarantees by as much as five times.

French opposition party objections to a Chinese role come six months before the country’s presidential election, and amid growing concern about public debt in France and in Europe. France’s public debt, which is more than 80 percent of gross domestic product, and its budget deficit are considered by a third of the French as the most important issues confronting the economy, above purchasing power and unemployment, according to an Ifop poll published yesterday in Ouest-France newspaper

Poor Sarko!
And BTW,”Wall Street star” Corzine?
called in the bankruptcy lawyers over the weekend…should be a filing, oh I don’t know, considering the snow and all?, LOL…- uh momentarily..
Merde! Poor Everybody! 😆

1. Here, it’s usually freezing or water “hammer” (my bet) caused when larger, higher pressure supply lines (bigger pipes usually an 1 1/4″ , 1″, or 3/4″ pipes) as they branch off into smaller pipes supplying kitchen and bathrooms and their fixtures…
Here it’s usually that or,
2. they’re working somebody over in the basement. or
3. they found people chained in the basement after the lower level slave traders from a massive multi state fraud ring left.

So, methodically working backwards on a solution, in the last two cases, a hack saw should be used to free up victims, with no special attention to wiping it clean as it will be needed later before being discarded.Of course make a list of everything: And , necessarily, devolve into vigilantism.
BUT if it’s strictly a water issue, the landlord should put valves in at the branch of the lines giving the problem, and water lines can be draned,, blown out with air, and then add “water hammers” atop the pipes giving the problem…Usually attop the riser, say behind a sink wall or at branch of a main riser in a building,
By riser , meaning the Elites of water pipage in your building, 😆 😉 , the main supplies hot + cold that rising from floor to floor before supplying the lesser , plebeian sorts 😆 of water lines near fixtures.

So,

❗ <– put the water hammer here
❗
❗
I ___________ when the supplies pick up a fixer here
I
I
I
I
BASEMENT

And if its a landlord problem, well then, there are solutions for that too, but we don’t have the re-education camps set up yet.
So if you really need water Now then I’d say the plumbing work is the way to go…. 😆 ..

(Oh c’mon. comrades! Trotsky was as much responsible for fucking things up the last time around because he couldn’t take a joke)

Strangely after a few hours of it, it has passed. It was SO noisy it kind of unnerved me…. I think I will try to ignore unless it happens again, soon… then I will call in the neighborhood handy person to look at it…

That it was in the cold water lines too , it it sounded like it was intermittent a good thing, not uncommon in pipes as they get minerals build up etc that hopefully flush pass thru… and not uncommon when radiator heat is furst turned up in the Fall either, but you’ll know when you get the kind of OMG! WTF! unrelenting THIS IS IT! kinda thing when a boiler is ready to blow…. 😉

Well my real expertise HERE IN JERSEY is as a political prognosticator.:lol: ;wink:

BUT 😆 FEAR NOT! — Anyways if there is a boiler to radiators, baseboards etc, and this thing only happens when the heat cycles on prolly a good idea to have someone check that the valves are all open, and the thermostat to the whatchamicalllit- the thermocouple/sensor inside where the furnace actually fires that THAT is in working order. Pretty hard to blow a boiler itself , but if the thing doesn’t know when to shut off – (sensor at the furnace) and/or valves are closed or the circulator. which pumps the water to radiators is in circulator Imbroglio or something, one of THOSE components need to be hammered ever so – (No! I’m kidding! No Hammers!) one of those components (about all there is) prolly will need replaced. Sometimes someone shuts or partially shuts valves in the heat loops in between seasons and they simply need re-opened..

All it is is a tea kettle piped to a pump, then looped through pipes back to the tea kettle, The thermostats runs to the burner saying mo’ betta heat or no mas up in heya.. The circulator pumps the warm tea of not freezing our ass off LIFE.. Relief valves, like a whistle on a tea kettle, Hell, :wink:, who knows what kind of shroomage could get in them? 😆 😉 . So the thermostats, the circulator pump, , the peripheral valves along various living space loops , the pressure relief valves, Who ever calls should ask for a standard service call which should cover that and be ready with questions when they say you need a whole new reactor or something.. Do NOT, repeat, DO NOT 😉 😉 , like my beloved once did, call somebody out by saying “I THINK OUR HOUSE IS READY TO BLOW UP!” 😆 😉 :wink

In college we had steam baseboard heating. If the heater wasn’t turned all the way up (or all the way off), air would get in the furnace and cause a banging sound. Least that’s what they told me.

So if you have a boiler in the basement for this purpose, it may be causing the same problem. Could also happen, I would think, if they just started it up after a long summer and there was sediment and whatnot in the system. Otherwise, don’t listen to me and listen to bhhm.

while reminding the rest of us out here in Dead Peasant Land, that , conveniently, just LAst Week , 😆
CNBC had Wall Street Piggy Fudge Packer Dick BOVE on…
(No no! Really! It’s Quite alright!
It’s Made from Real Corporate PIG FUDGE!)
seen in the middle of the clip just humping the fuck away how Corzines MF was fine and how blah blah blah and it’s a value play and blah blah blah before anybody makes Mass Exodus and blh blah blay and stay in and yada yada yada …to which the younger humps of course yield and chime in how Bove’s got a point and , etc. etc, ETC.

Oh I know, advanced capitalist decay,
we’ve all been over this before, but I really think (*especially for any malingering capitalist at this point) Patrick Byrne’s layout of what he calls Deep Capture is to be right there among the essential reading of the last 30 years….

IByrne is the guy who ran Overstock and the GS and Citi crowd all lined up behind meggy Moo’s Ebay… he thoroughly lays out how overstock came under an orchestrated “short” raid, how the SEC was in the bag, how they employed nummerous media shills and how the market moved and documented all their trades..

Byrne’s a very brght guy, and the mofo had great counsel, investigators, and IT people…During discovery, they got scads of damning internal emails, texts messages, etc, got a score of the journos and lackey traders Fired LOL and ultimately got GOT PAID by GS/ Rubin’s Crew…

Minor miracle it was…

IIRC..in the last year, a couple of their operative lessers at the Hedge Funds got time and are said to be co-operating in some 🙄 criminal cases.

And speaking of plumbing, LOL –
This is an excellent update on Byrne from last summer,
the tids on Gary Weiss worth it on their own….

yeh, I see now that he and his company are hanging in so far…
And I have nothin in the market or otherwise, no dog in any retailers fight but his case as far as I know is the only one to survive such an onslaught ..

Also Byrne credits Jon Hanson at Harvard Law for coming up with “Deep Capture” ( Prof’s Legal work wraps around social dynamics, behavioral finance, and regulatory capture)
And here I just thought the fix was in!
Anyways, I did Catholic School and once served Latin Mass, so fuck, I can tolerate the intuhlecshally tedious from time to time when not shaving an insufferably ignorant mouthbreather in the mirror. 😉 ;lol:

I ordered a couple of things from Overstock and ran into a problem, not with me or Overstock with the neighborhood mail boxes etc type of place that i had it sent to.

The customer service from Overstock was unbelievably good. It was not an expensive item, and even before it was clear it was the receiver’s error (they lost the package after USPS delivered it! AND refused to take any responsibility!) Overstock immediately sent a rplacement…. just 4 dishtowels for 15.00 but wow. AND they phoned me.

Just like with Lehman, when it took 3 days for the full consequences of the bankruptcy to manifest themselves in the form of a complete freeze of money markets, so too now we are starting to see the same phenomenon following the blow up of one of the world’s largest exchanges. The first observation comes courtesy of Dow Jones which informs us that the MF Bankruptcy has “devastated stock futures liquidity.” Specifically, “MF Global’s departure from the clearing scene has “devastated liquidity” in stock index futures, a long-time CME floor broker said. He estimated about a third of the pit population is missing.

And while its notes that Goldman Sachs will picking up biz upon MF’s exit, IMO it still comes back to the basic point, there is no more foisting to be done – – > Like any of these “extend and pretend” deals are preventing Defaults from picking up pace….. 🙄

Back in 2003, Oakland’s acting police chief, Howard Jordan, had this to say about the policy:

“You don’t need to have some sort of skill to be able to infiltrate these groups. If you put the people in there from the beginning, I think we’ll be able to gather the information. And maybe direct them to do something we want them to do.”

”You don’t need to have some special skill to be able to infiltrate these groups. If you put people in there from the beginning, I think we’ll be able to gather the information. And maybe direct them to do something that we want them to do.”

Now, the investigation threatens to tarnish the reputation of Mr. Corzine, 😆 the former New Jersey Governor and Goldman Sachs chief who oversaw MF Global’s demise, making it the first American victim of Europe’s debt crisis.

What began as nearly $1 billion missing had dropped to less than $700 million by late Monday.

USA!!USA!! Oh JUST*~PASS*~THE*~NITROUS~~~~ 😆

It is unclear where the money went, 😯 and
some money is expected to trickle in 😆 over the coming days as the firm sorts through the bankruptcy process, the people said.

Graeme Knowles, the dean of St Paul’s, stands down with immediate effect, saying his position had become ‘untenable’
::

The perceived dithering and divisions of church officials over the protest camp outside St Paul’s in London have claimed a second major scalp with the resignation of the cathedral’s dean, the Right Rev Graham Knowles.

The dean – whose job is sufficiently senior that a replacement must be approved by the Queen – announced that mounting criticism over the cathedral’s handling of the situation made his position “untenable”.

{Snip}

Last week the St Paul’s canon chancellor, Giles Fraser, stepped down after the cathedral’s governing chapter voted to begin possible legal action against the Occupy the London Stock Exchange camp, in place now for 16 days. A part-time cleric also resigned.

Well, The last two resigned in support of Occupy London when they higher ups voted to sue for eviction…

Knowles, on the other hand, was the prig who was out in front whining about how people had to go,Move along, Move along God’s work and all, and was said to be a driving force behind them closing their doors…for the first time , and lasting longer than they during WORLD WAR II….. I saw a figure they released saying their losses for the week amounted to around 500,000 USD in tourist donations…which didn’t help them a bit. How

(Sorry, not able to post on current thread, I’m assuming it’s browser issues)

Really looking forward to tomorrow (and really regretting I won’t be able to make it there). Wonder how many throughways and Bart Stations the fuckers will be attempting to block off …goood luck fockers!.

It would be nice if there were counter protests held to avert those 17 plus County Mounties which typically send their cops up to Oaktown to put a brutal lid on a pressure cooker of neglected humanity.

Occupy Oakland, in solidarity with the Occupy movement and with the
local community, has established the principle of claiming for open use
the open space that has been kept from us. We are committed to
helping this practice continue and grow. Here in Oakland, thousands of
buildings owned by city, banks, and corporations stand idle and
abandoned. At the same time social services such as child and
healthcare, education, libraries and community spaces are being
defunded and eliminated.

Occupy Oakland supports the efforts of people in all Oakland
neighborhoods to reclaim abandoned properties for use to meet their
own immediate needs. Such spaces are already being occupied and
squatted unofficially by the dispossessed, the marginalized, by many of
the very people who have joined together here in Oscar Grant Plaza to
make this a powerful and diverse movement.

We commit to providing political and material support to neighborhood
reclamations, and supporting them in the face of eviction threats or
police harassment. In solidarity with the global occupation movement,
we encourage the transformation of abandoned spaces into resource
centers toward meeting urgent community needs that the current
economic system cannot and will not provide.

It would be nice if there were counter protests held to avert those 17 plus County Mounties which typically send their cops up to Oaktown to put a brutal lid on a pressure cooker of neglected humanity.

So.

At Thursday's debate, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their Medicare for All plan. They faced criticism from several rivals, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, who described it as a "bad idea," and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who claimed the bill shows Sanders and Warren do not "trust the American people."

At the third presidential primary debate in Houston, Texas, senator and 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Warren also spoke about her stance on U.S. trade policy and how "our trade policy in America has been broken for decades."

After being questioned about the crisis in Venezuela, Senator Bernie Sanders defended his vision of democratic socialism. "I agree with what goes on in Canada and in Scandinavia: guaranteeing healthcare to all people as a human right. I believe that the United States should not be the only major country on Earth not to provide paid family and medical le […]

Debate moderator Jorge Ramos of Univision grilled former Vice President Joe Biden over the Obama administration's deportation record. Biden refused to answer whether he did anything to prevent Obama from deporting a record 3 million people.

A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, widening the antitrust probe of Big Tech.

U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Friday asked a government watchdog to look into the Trump administration's decision to launch an antitrust probe into four automakers cooperating with California on tighter greenhouse gas emissions limits that Trump is trying to eliminate.

A lawyer for former FBI official Andrew McCabe pressed U.S. prosecutors on Friday to drop their politically sensitive case against him, citing reports that suggest they may be having trouble securing criminal charges.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.